Shergar, a brilliant winner of Britain’s most prestigious race, the Epsom Derby, was taken from his stable in 1983. He was ...

The champion racehorse, owned by the Aga Khan, was stolen in Ireland 42 years ago today. The billionaire spiritual leader had ...

The Aga Khan, who has died aged 88, then retired the horse and sent it to stud in Kildare - but only after selling shares in ...

Following this triumph, he had four more major derby wins and was named European Horse of the Year ... 8 pm when the son of Jim Fitzgerald, Shergar’s head groom that lived at the stud, heard ...

There was relief when it was announced that Shergar would be put to stud in Ireland and not, as many in the horse-racing world had feared, in America. As a result of his on-track glories ...

But Shergar wouldn’t just make headlines in the racing pages. He became national and international news, but for altogether more sinister reasons. The horse was famously kidnapped two years ...

The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and ... with the thoroughbred Shergar among his most famous. Shergar won the Epsom Derby, the Irish Derby and the King George ...